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Gov. Justice' Family Selling 3 Plantations in Virginia

Three plantations owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s family are going on the auction block shortly — historic properties near Richmond Virginia, each with a manor house and hundreds of acres of working farmland.

Jay Justice, leading the Justice Companies while his father is governor, says the investment properties are for sale because farming was his father’s main focus, while his is coal mining.

Flowerdew Hundred along the James River in Hopewell, Virginia, was originally granted in 1618 to colonial Virginia Gov. George Yeardley, an early English settlement.

It now has 1,300 acres and a 12-bedroom house.

Premiere Estates Auction Co. says 880-acre Horseshoe Farm in Rapidan and 1,700-acre Rapidan Farm in Culpeper are each for sale in up to five parcels.

The governor’s family hasn’t lived in any of them.

West Virginia Auditor to Head White Collar Crime Center

The auditor of West Virginia will be the next president and CEO of the National White Collar Crime Center in Richmond, Virginia.

The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that Glen Gainer will oversee day-to-day operations at the center starting May 15.

The organization provides training to law enforcement officers across the nation. Gainer will spend much of his time at the organization’s Fairmont satellite.

He had served as the group’s board chairman for 18 years. The organization announced Tuesday in a news release that Christopher Cotta has been selected to replace Gainer as the new chairman of the board.

Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin is expected to name a new state auditor by May 14.

US Army Moving Recruiting Center from W.Va. to Va.

The U.S. Army is moving its recruiting center in Beckley to Virginia.
 
The U.S. Army Recruiting Command’s relocation to Richmond, Virginia, is scheduled to be completed by the end of June.
Capt. Randall Agnew, the company commander in Richmond, tells The Register-Herald that there currently are four full-time workers at the Beckley facility.
 
The Beckley center once employed around 30 workers.
 
The Army announced the relocation in February.
 
 

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